I'm shopping for membership software. I really like what Wild Apricot has to offer but not accepting eChecks or allowing an api to do so is a deal breaker for me. For what they offer, credit cards, PayPal etc. 3% is too much and I don't want to be forced to pay them in order to use your wonderful product. eChecks through Authorize.net is the way to go for so many reasons. Any plans to get it going anytime soon?

I have long thought that having the ability to have recurring payments taken out of the customer's checking account via ACH would solve a number of problems. First and foremost no more needing to chase down members because of credit card expirations and secondly the costs per transactions should be significantly less. I assumed that for WA to implement this would be a major production if not impossible and kind of gave up on the idea. However, I have tooled around and low and behold the functionality is essentially already in place!!
My auth.net account has two features that allow this to take place; e-checks have been enabled (costs $10 per month) as is the "customer information manager" Soooooooo if I have a member who has recurring payments enabled via a previous credit card payment in WA, if I go into the Auth.net CIM I can look up their profile and guess what - change the preferred payment method from credit card to check. All I need to do is give the routing number and account number and save. Going forward the next time a payment is due it automatically comes out of their checking account!!
So clearly it can be done - If only WA would provide an option to send ACH information rather than credit card information to auth.,net when a member first signs up for recurring payments life would be wonderful. I calculate that I can cut my transaction fees in half and never have to worry about expiration dates (unless of course someone changes their bank but how often does that happen)

This is a much needed feature.

More than 600 payments by members were made by echeck this year. If all our members did so they would save $25,000 in credit card fees.

Each payment had to be entered manually into WA (same as paper checks). It would be great if WA could import these from PayPal or Authorize.net - or facilitate an api to do so.

Why am I paying 3.5% on every membership transaction and renewal to the credit card processors? when the option of recurrent echecks is readily available through for instance in my case echecks.net through authorize.net We all could be saving a TON of money if this functionality were enabled.............PLUS one of our biggest headaches in recurring payments is that the credit card expiration date WILL expire at some point and we will need to spend lots of time trying to contact the buyers and then fixing that. With e-checks as I understand it there is NO expiration date until the client revokes the authorization. If this were implemented the monies saved would be a many times of what I am paying for my apricot subscription!

Please add parent Booster USA to the list of Wild Apricot subscribers who would like to be able to accept e-checks via authorize.net.

e-checks would also be of interest to my group; any timeline on this?

No update

any update on this in particular for PayPal Pro?

thanks

Let's see what other will tell on that.